David P. Goldman

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition? by David Nirenberg Norton, 624 pages, $35 World history is the history of Israel, averred Franz ?Rosenzweig, meaning that the nations of the West so hearkened to . . . . Continue Reading »1Aug2013

It is consoling to think that the emotions that music arouses in us have something to do with the makeup of the universe. The eternal relation of math and music has been a perennial question since . . . . Continue Reading »1Apr2012

Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $35 This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has trouble making sense of . . . . Continue Reading »1Nov2011

The curtain rises in silence to reveal a stage composed of parallel white planks. With the first bars of the prelude”an insistent, agitated gesture in the lower strings”the planks . . . . Continue Reading »17Jul2011

Mathematics and Religion: Our Languages of Sign and Symbol by Javier Leach Templeton, 188 pages, $19.95 A man is like a carpenter, mused Tevye the milkman; for a man dies, and so does a carpenter. . . . . Continue Reading »1Mar2011

As of February 28, my position as Senior Editor at First Things will end. Such is the publishing world: the challenge of producing a well-printed book of nearly a hundred pages in a world of . . . . Continue Reading »14Feb2011

Late in the nineteenth century, men and women in apparent possession of their senses heard Richard Wagners new operas and announced that their lives had changed forever. Charles Baudelaire saw . . . . Continue Reading »1Dec2010

Kurt Cardinal Koch is the new Vatican head of ecumenical relations, responsible among other things for relations with the Jews. The Swiss cleric replaces Walter Cardinal Kasper, whom I praised for his . . . . Continue Reading »18Nov2010